Environmental Education forPrimary School Children:
Towards Building a
Sustainable Society
February 1, 2018
Hitoshi Takei, Approved Specified Nonprofit
Corporation Act Kawasaki(Kawasaki Center for Climate Change Actions)Kawasaki Center for Climate Change Actions
Kawasaki City
(global environmentpromotion office)

Designates

Approved SpecifiedNonprofit Corporation
Act Kawasaki

Designated period: 01/12/2010 – 31/03/2020 (3rd period)
Article 38 of Law Concerning the Promotion of the Measures to Cope with Global Warming
1. Educational activities, public relations
2. Responding to, consulting with and supporting measures for controlling discharge of waste
3. Studying actual status of waste discharge, analyzing info and materials (data)
4. Providing analysis results to help promote activities by citizens to advance environmental measures
5. Cooperating with local authority policies* All Large Administrative Divisions Establish Centers in Major
Cities in Accordance with Cabinet Order- People who are enthusiastic about preventing global warming andwho will take action locally- Currently about 80 people commissioned by Mayor of Kawasaki- Working on individually themed projects in each ward of the city2Visiting Lectures on the Environment at Elementary Schools
Global Warming

Power Saving

EnergyRenewable/Natural Energy

3R (Reduce/Reuse/Recycle)

Eco-shopping/Eco-cooking

Local Production/Consumption

Trees & CO2

Green (Gourd) Wall

Separating Garbage
Food Loss

Global Warming Game

Environment & Global Warming Initiatives in City

Target: Mainly 5th graders (in integrated
study periods where subjects areundertaken voluntarily, cross-sectionallyand integratedly)Eco-shopping(green consumer)

Global warming /Power saving(energy saving group)

The sun is amazing!
(solar team)

Garbage separation(3R promotion PRJ)

Initiatives on global warming in the city
(environmental education, study PRJ,Kawasaki Center)4

Visiting Lectures to Elementary Schools(FY2016)
Program

ProjectImplementing
SchoolPromoting suitable garbage separation and giving
consideration to environment in daily living!

Project to advance 3R3

Eco-shopping that stops global warming

Green consumer
group

9A journey about food – Food mileage

Green consumer
group

1

The sun is amazing!

Solar team3

What is global warming – Look, touch, feel

Energy saving group

7

Lets all save power!

Energy saving group

4Leaves are amazing – Trees & CO2

Energy saving group5

Learning to stop global warming throughenvironment game

Center/Environmental
education PRJ

6Learning initiatives for preventing global warmingin the city

Center/Environmental
education PRJ

9Implementation statistics: 35 schools/113 schools in all/total of 47 times

Introducing
Contents

Tamagawa River
water quality

Air pollution

1960s

Initiatives for Global Warming & Environment

Present

Carbon Challenge Kawasaki Eco-strategy(February 2008)
While thinking about the balance between environment andeconomy, the following three main initiatives will be implemented tocreate a recycling-orientated society.
I

Push ahead with environmental measures that make themost of Kawasaki’s specialties and fortes.

II

Use environmental technologies to make an internationalcontribution.

III

Everyone work together to reduce CO2.

In other words the challenge says: “If we work as the city
did against air and water (Tamagawa) pollution, then wecan all come together to set goals to definitely overcome
global warming.”
7

Career Steering and Life Education(Kawasaki Board of Education)
Viewpoint 1: Developing yourself (Have confidence in yourself,and raise your self-awareness)
Viewpoint 2: We all live collectively (have the strength tomutually respect personalities, to cooperate and towork together to positively build society)Viewpoint 3: Our city, Kawasaki (learn to appreciate Kawasaki
more, and have pride in your home town)
Basic and Versatile Capabilities (Four Strengths)
Human-relationship building/Society-building capability, Selfunderstanding/self-managing capability, Issue-coping capability
and Career-planning capability

Capability and Attitude Geared to the Importance of Education forSustainable Development (ESD) – What kind of capabilities and attitudes
are being nurtured? –Capability/Attitude
Forecast future
and plan for it

Reasons
Because we know about changes from the past related to global
warming, and have learned about how the future of the global
environment can change depending on the content of humanactivity.

Think
Because we become aware of the need to think from multiple
comprehensively angles, such as what causes global warming, the roles of solar
and fromenergy, atmosphere, oceans and plants as well as the impact ofmultiple angleshuman activities.
Participate
voluntarilyBecause we realize the need to work collectively (not on ourown) to stop global warming.

* We also need to be able to criticize, communicate, cooperateand connect.

Communicate the Composition Concepts Needed to Build
Leading Sustainable Society
Composition
Concepts

Relation

Related Reasons○Learn about the finiteness of the world by knowing
about the causes of global warming and climatechange, knowing forecasts for the future, andknowing that the global environment will get worse if
action is not taken.

○Understand the necessity of cooperating/collaboratingby learning that “cooperation” is an action goal of thecity, and that, in fact, various forms of cooperation arein use.

○Learn that we are all responsible for global warming
by knowing that the build up of our individual lifestyles
brings about global warming.

Diversity
Reciprocity
Finiteness
Fairness
CooperativenessResponsibility

Do not just think of yourself, look to theworld, and help those in difficulty andthose who are unable to help themselves.
Impact of Rising Sea Level Near Equator(Before Flooding)(After Flooding)Flood damage on Tuvalu’s Funafuti Island (photographed in May 2002)

Integrating Economics
and Environment
Eco-chans

Logy

Nomy+ SustainableDevelopment
Goals in Society